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HOW HARD IS COLLEYVILLE’S WATER?
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110 ppm. That is 6.4 grains per gallon.
The Colleyville water quality report lists a total hardness of 110 ppm as its highest result. On the USGS hardness scale that is moderately hard water.
COMMON SIGNS OF HARD WATER
What 6.4 grains per gallon looks like at home.
At about 6.4 grains per gallon, every one of these shows up in Colleyville sooner or later. The water test tells you how soon.
Cloudy glassware and white spots the dishwasher cannot rinse off: about 6.4 grains of dried mineral per gallon.
The white crust is limescale. It narrows spray holes and seizes aerators and valves.
Calcium and magnesium react with soap before it foams: more soap, and scum on tubs and shower doors.
The same soap curd settles on skin and hair and does not rinse away.
Minerals bind to fabric and detergent. Towels come out stiff, whites go grey, colors fade sooner.
Scale coats heating elements and clogs small valves, so appliances work harder and fail sooner.
COLLEYVILLE’S WATER, BY HARDNESS
One source, Lake Arlington water from the authority, 110 ppm, moderately hard
Colleyville's 2025 water quality report lists exactly one source of water: SW from TRA Tarrant County, state source number TX2200199, type SW for surface water, with Lake Arlington in the City of Arlington named as the primary water source. There is no city plant and no city well behind that line. What the city owns is the delivery: about 209 miles of mains, 9,931 meters, 1,450 hydrants, three elevated towers, a pair of pumping facilities and a single ground tank, according to its public works page, which also notes that the same authority plant supplies Bedford, Euless and parts of Grapevine and of North Richland Hills. The authority's Tarrant County project has run since 1974, and the report directs source-water questions to the authority at 11201 Trinity Boulevard in Euless, which is where the plant is. Because the supply is entirely the authority's, Colleyville's report is in effect the authority's report with the city's name on it, and the hardness figure is the authority's measurement of the water it sends.
Every secondary result in Colleyville's report is a single sample the authority collected on February 27, 2025, which is why each row shows one value and a range that begins and ends at the same number. Total hardness as calcium carbonate came in at 110 ppm; sodium at 27.5; chloride at 18.4; sulfate at 48.9; total dissolved solids at 194; bicarbonate and total alkalinity both at 81; calcium at 38.0; magnesium at 3.68; conductivity at 342 micromhos per centimeter; and pH 7.4 to 8.8 over the year. The report attributes its hardness to calcium and magnesium leached from natural deposits and the bicarbonate to the erosion of carbonate rock. That 110 ppm reading is moderately hard by the USGS classes, 6.4 grains a gallon or so, with the low alkalinity and modest sodium typical of treated lake water rather than water drawn from deep sandstone.
A single sample describes one day in February, not a year, and Lake Arlington is a working reservoir topped up with water piped across from the Cedar Creek and Richland Chambers reservoirs, so the figure at a Colleyville tap moves with the lake's blend and the season even though the source never changes from one year to the next. The three towers and the ground tank store and lift the water without altering its minerals, and because there is no second supply, a home on one side of the city and a home on the other get the same water. Choose a softener with headroom above 110 ppm so the unit is not caught short in a harder month, and ask for the free water test on your own tap; that measured number is the one we size to.
Sources: City of Colleyville, 2025 Water Quality Report · City of Colleyville: Water and Wastewater page · Trinity River Authority, 2025 brochure · City of Euless: Water and Wastewater · USGS Water Science School: Hardness of Water
HOW A SOFTENER WORKS
Ion exchange, salt and regeneration.
One tank of resin, one tank of salt, and a valve that runs the cycle.
Resin beads hold sodium ions. Calcium and magnesium swap onto the beads as water passes, and the water leaves at close to zero grains.
When the beads fill up, brine from the salt tank rinses the hardness to the drain and reloads the sodium, metered by the gallons you use.
Calcium, magnesium and a little dissolved iron. Not chlorine, chloramine, PFAS, lead or taste: that is a filter’s job, so see whole house water filtration for Colleyville, and a reverse osmosis tap or bottled water delivery for drinking water.
A salt-free water conditioner turns hardness into crystals that stay in the water instead of on heaters and pipes: no salt, no drain, less scale, no relief for soap and skin.
HARDNESS QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
The hard water FAQ for Colleyville.
Is Colleyville’s water hard?
Moderately. Colleyville's only source is Trinity River Authority water from Lake Arlington, and the city's 2025 report prints the authority's sample at 110 ppm total hardness as calcium carbonate, about 6.4 grains per gallon, moderately hard on the USGS scale. That is one February sample, so the free water test gives the figure at your tap on the day.
Is hard water safe to drink?
Yes. Hardness is calcium and magnesium, minerals with no federal drinking-water limit. It is a plumbing, appliance, soap and skin problem, not a health one.
Does a softener make my water salty?
No. The salt goes down the drain at regeneration; the water carries a little sodium in proportion to the hardness removed, which a reverse osmosis tap removes again.
THE SOURCE MATTERS
Where the number comes from.
Each figure is read from the document linked beside it, in its own units and period. A missing result stays missing; a range stays a range.
Hardness result
Colleyville water quality report ↗
February 27, 2025
City of Colleyville · PWS TX2200043
Single reported result
Hardness scale
USGS Water Science School: hardness of water ↗
USGS hardness scale, mg/L as CaCO3: soft 0 to 60; moderately hard 61 to 120; hard 121 to 180; very hard over 180.
FREE WATER TEST IN COLLEYVILLE
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free water test.
We measure the hardness at your tap, size the softener in grains to that number, and install it ourselves.